Joint Conference of the Labor and Working-Class History Association and the Working-Class Studies Association

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Anthony DeStefanis is Associate Professor of History at Otterbein University. He received his PhD from the College of William and Mary in 2004. His current research uses the Colorado National Guard to examine military strikebreaking. His book manuscript in progress is titled “Guarding the Empire: Soldier Strikebreakers on the Long Road to the Ludlow Massacre.” His most recent articles are: “Governor Elias Ammons and the 1913-1914 Southern Colorado Coal Strike” in Making an American Workforce: The Rockefellers and the Legacy of the Ludlow Massacre. Denver: University Press of Colorado, 2014 and the “The Road to Ludlow: Breaking the 1913-14 Southern Colorado Coal Strike” was published in the Journal of the Historical Society in September 2012.

This panel will examine three iconic mining conflicts of the early twentieth century: the Pennsylvania Anthracite coal strike in 1906, the 1913-14 Michigan copper strike, and the southern Colorado coal strike of 1913-1914. In all three examples, the combined power of corporate control (sometimes cast as “benevolent paternalism”) and government policing power crushed organizing drives […]